“Phew. Gotta say, I’m not sad I don’t have to finish this job.” They laughed at her. “Yeah, well,” the beta woman continued. “I gotta s...y it was fun to tell an alpha what to do all week. My wolf had the best time. And you don’t make a half-bad beta.” “Thanks,” she said. She bathed in a river and went back to her hut. It was night by the time she returned. Charmaine was waiting for her in the amphitheater, with Orion and a few others watching from the sidelines. Elvin was absent. He’d avoided. I spent ninety percent of my free time on the football field. We won the Homecoming game against Warsaw and I won MVP. A week later, I also won Defensive Team Captain — which also rocked. I had to step back from the Ballroom Team, though. I still had time to dance, since that was during school hours, but I couldn't compete in everything during the football season. Mr. Fuentes was pretty mad but he wasn't about to argue with Coach Dutton.I did all right in school — I was never an A student but. “That’s up to you,” I said. “If you’re not ready then I think you should.”“I’m ready,” Liz said. “I was worried about you not being ready.”I offered a slight shrug.“I’m not sure anybody is ever really ready,” I admitted. “I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about things ... about what this would mean for us.”“And?” Liz pressed.“And nothing,” I confessed. “I ran the scenarios around in my head a dozen times and came up with nothing concrete. I know I was disappointed just now. But it’s something. “She went to the mallwith a couple of girls. Probably have lunch out there.You got a minute?”“Sure,” I said and she opened the door wide and Istepped in. She closed it and smiled at me. My cockjerked to life.Cindy’s mother was something. She looked like a matureBarbie doll with her jutting boobs and her long legsand huge mop of blonde curls. She was wearing the topof a set of Babydoll PJs that hung from tiny straps.It was pale yellow and almost transparent with a.